David Beckham getting ready to “Bend It Like Beckham” from the corner:
Overall it was a really good time, and good aggressive soccer on display. Was a bit surprised how many soccer fans exist in New England – it took us an hour to get the car out of the (Gillette) stadium parking lot after the match!
(cross posted on CenterNetworks)
Compete just revised UP Yahoo’s market share number significantly – by 5.3 percentage points.
To put this number in perspective — combined market share of AOL and ASK.com = 4.1%
On Monday we released our May Search Share numbers. As a result of some conversations we were having with Danny Sullivan in parallel we sent over our “rules” we use to mine the search data. Danny threw these up on his post reviewing our data and one savvy reader very quickly identified an issue with our rules. So, long story short, we have fixed our Yahoo! rules (and also reevaluated all the other engine rules in the process). Here’s the updated data based on adjusted rules.
According to the revised market share numbers, a MSFT/Yahoo Search combination would yield:
Yahoo+MSN/Live = 28.5% combined market share (revised)
Yahoo+MSN/Live = 23.9% (old)
However, as Jeremy points out in his post, trend wise not much has changed. Yahoo Search market share is still trending downwards.
I’m sure folks at Microsoft (and Wall Street) have been watching these numbers closely (along with those from comScore, Hitwise, etc). This revision certainly makes Yahoo worth more, but is it enough for Microsoft to change its mind? Only time will tell.
CORRECTED STATS:
OLD STATS:
I just noticed this on Compete.com
According to Compete, Google now (since March ’08) has more “reach” than any other web property in the United States. While Yahoo is ahead on every other metric that Compete reports on, Google is catching up slowly, but steadily.
note: stats do not include Google/Yahoo owned properties that may be hosted on their own domains ex. YouTube, Flickr, etc.
GS is on MSFT as well. Implications?
Here, set against the backdrops of Nairobi city and the beautiful landscape of Uhuru Park (Maasai country), a Kenyan choir sings the Indian national anthem.
The director has chosen the Indian anthem because Kenya is home to a sizeable Indian population (including Sikhs & Jains also) of approximately 2.5 million, most of them descendants of the East African Railways labourers who were brought over by the British during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the British colonialists ruled Kenya and the rest of the East African region.
